Genesis 31:30

Clearly you wanted to leave and go back to your family home, but why did you have to steal my idols?”

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In The King James Version

And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

In Context

29I could really punish you badly, but the God of your father spoke to me last night and told me, ‘Watch what you say to Jacob. Don't try to persuade him to come back, and don't threaten him either.’

31“I ran away because I was afraid,” Jacob explained to Laban. “I was worried that you would take your daughters from me by force.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:19While Laban was away from home shearing his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

Numbers 10:30“No, I won't go—I'll return to my own country and my own people,” Hobab replied.

Judges 6:31Joash replied to all those confronting him, “Are you arguing on Baal's behalf? Do you have to save him? Anyone who argues for him will be put to death by morning! If he is a god let him fight for himself against those who tore down his altar.”

1 Samuel 5:2They brought the Ark of God into the Temple of Dagon and placed it next to Dagon.

Isaiah 37:19They have thrown their gods into the fire because they are not really gods—they are just the work of human hands, made of wood and stone so they could destroy them.

Jeremiah 10:11This is what you are to tell the nations: “These gods, who didn't make either the heavens or the earth, will be wiped out from this earth and from under these heavens.”

Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:26-36

Laban's Pursuit after Jacob. ( b. c. 1739.) 25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. 26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword? 27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp? 28… Read the whole commentary →

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